Cindy McCain wages 'war' on Paltrow

Cindy McCain has a bone to pick with Gwyneth Paltrow, calling the actress a “joke” for comparing her struggles with online comments to those of a soldier going through war.

“Gweneth [sic] Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her,” the wife of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tweeted on Wednesday.

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In a follow-up tweet, McCain added, “Perhaps Gweneth Paltrow should go out on patrol with some soldiers. Kind of like a Red Carpet in her mind I guess!”

McCain had previously tweeted an article that quoted Paltrow as comparing online criticism to going through war.

“You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it’s a very dehumanizing thing. It’s almost like how, in war, you go through this bloody, dehumanizing thing, and then something is defined out of it,” Paltrow said at Re/code’s Code Conference on Tuesday, according to the tech outlet.

The McCains’ daughter also took Paltrow to task on the social media platform on Thursday.

“Maybe Gwyneth Paltrow should visit Walter Reed and some of our heroic veterans before comparing her life to theirs. #shesatotalidiot,” Meghan McCain tweeted.

Cindy McCain said on HLN Now TV on Thursday that hse would be happy to go with the actress to meet with troops and hear their stories.

“I think it was an ignorant thing to say and a very selfish thing to say,” McCain said. “[The troops] serve so selflessly, and they serve so that people like Gwyneth Paltrow can say the things she did freely.”

McCain added, “It’s Hollywood, I don’t know what else to say … I just think she’s out of touch.”